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effects of ageism - ✔✔aging anxiety, fears and worries about detrimental effects


Roles of Gerontological Nurse - ✔✔assist in them reaching highest level of wellness


empower, enhance, and support


work with patient and family to develop plans of care


Ethnogeriatrics - ✔✔integration of ethnicity, aging, and health


includes health care for older adults from diverse ethnic populations


importance of culturally competent care - ✔✔increase patient satisfaction


increase quality of care


decrease health disparities that are due to lack of culturally competent care


wear & tear theory - biological theories - ✔✔body can be like a machine that is expected to function well

during the period of its warranty, but that will wear out in a predictable time


cross linkage theory - biological theories - ✔✔proposes that molecular structures that normally are

separated may be bound together through chemical reactions


free radical theory - biological theories - ✔✔postulates that although most organisms have severe

mechanisms of antioxidant defense, damage to cells cannot be avoided and increases with age


immunological theory - ✔✔suggests that aging is a result of an accumulation of damage to the immune

system



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,activity theory - ✔✔the ideal of life is to maintain as active as possible


this is possible when living in a stable society


the older person will have access to positive people in their life and participate in society


disengagement theory - ✔✔natural course of aging, the person should slowly start withdrawing from

society to allow transfer of power to the younger generation


needed to maintain social equilibrium


this provides basis of age discrimination


social enhance theory - ✔✔as one ages they have fewer economic resources to contribute to society = a

loss of social status, self esteem and political power


those that maintain financial resources fully participate in society and successful aging


developmental theories - ✔✔eriksons hierarchy, last stage is to look back at their life and reflect


if one can look back with few regrets and feel satisfaction they have lived a successful life


gerontranscendence - ✔✔aging is ever evolving, it alters one's reality, sense of spirituality, and meaning

beyond self




wisdom is achieved through personal transformation and transcendence is a maker of successful aging


spiritual distress - ✔✔can be manifested by anger, guilt blaming, hatred, expression of alienation, turning

away from family and friends, inability to derive pleasure, and inability to participate in religious

activities


cognition & aging - ✔✔cognition is the process of acquiring, storing, sharing, and using information


includes; language thought process, memory, execution of junction, judgement, attention and perception

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, cognition can remain stable or decline with aging


memory - ✔✔the ability to retain and store info, retrieve the info when needed; immediate, short term,

and long term memory.




familiarly, previous learning, and life experiences can compensate for memory loss


Age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) - ✔✔normal memory loss due to age


factors influencing ability to mange stress - ✔✔health fitness


sense of control over events


awareness of self and others


patience and tolerance


resilience


hardiness


resourcefulness


social suport


strong sense of self


those not successful in managing transitions and stressors have - ✔✔lack of social support


accumulated stressor


unresolved grief


pre-existing psychiatric illness


cognitive impairment


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